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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...write down your own definition of risk. The Oxford English Dictionary (2016) gives many definitions of risk. For example, the definitions of ‘risk’ as a noun include: The possibility that something unpleasant or unwelcome will happen. A person or thing regarded as a threat or likely source of danger. But also, perhaps more interestingly, the definitions of ‘risk’...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...writing on shared noticeboards. Many teams in this situation use overlapping shifts to provide face-to-face meetings and facilitate shift handovers. A typical Type 2 team could be an international product development team, a multinational organisation or a global project team. Again, Type 2 teams are similar to Type 5 teams, differing only in whether team members work for...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...writing on the back? SPEAKER 3 Yeah. JAMES GALLOWAY OK. I've worked with the Youth Offending Service as a community panel member with restorative justice. Alesha, you can go out if you want, or you can stay in and play games or draw ... My main role in the school is to support the behaviour of the children in class. I do that in a number of ways. If a teacher needs...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...writes: ‘Over the last century, ... the centre of gravity in the Christian world has shifted inexorably away from Europe, southward, to Africa and Latin America, and eastward, toward Asia. Today, the largest Christian communities on the planet are to be found in those regions.’ (Jenkins, 2002, pp. 1–2). The Christian tradition – its beliefs and practices – have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...write an email to my local council representative and correspond with the tax office. But the state is always more than each of these things – perhaps it is not so much a thing as a rather abstract idea which, in a sense, ‘sits behind’ all of these organisations. The state as such does not appear – it seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...write here? One has to choose subjects.’ Shcho tut pyshut? literally means ‘What here they write?’ Pyshut means ‘they write’. Verb’s ending shows that this is 3rd person plural. As you can see, Viktoriia does not use pronoun vony (they) because it’s not important who precisely wrote the letter. Verb’s ending shows that this is 3rd person plural. As you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...writing, publishing papers or what? BP: Yeah, what you do as an academic. I published papers on all sorts to do with sports science, but also I have a special interest, perhaps from my own experience, in how people perceive potential disasters, how people respond to existential risks, and societies, how we deal with big environmental, potential problems, how do we deal...
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The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...writing this course in 2018, pretty much appears to consume Britain’s Labour Party. But is that still the case at the time of your reading this material? You may find it worthwhile to reflect on this.) For something that is of no apparent immediate concern for Britain, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict tends to generate unique intensity in debates. What we often have...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs